The power of gardens and gardening has asserted itself in Ontario. Garden centres will be open starting Monday. This is for curbside service and delivery.
What else makes the threshold? Not hair salons. It is auto dealers, car washes, more construction sites. The key news? Marinas and golf courses can 'get ready'.
You can't imagine how deeply disheartened golfers are as the trees blossom and the lawns green up. Ontario Golfers seeing those dandelions blooming this week probably had a gut-wrenching moment. Perhaps memories of a wonderful experience just a year ago.
Calgary golfers? Opening weekend now. Manitoba? They start opening Monday. B.C. golfers? They are like B.C. gardeners. There are 100 golf courses that remained open during the lockdown. Remember their spring? Their spring started before COVID-19 lockdowns.
The 'weighing-in' on the benefits of opening up is freely shared on social media. When it comes to sharing the risks, the advice is naive, flippant and even stupid. It's a good thing golf courses were locked down - here's what muskokahighlands.com advised on March 19 2020:
"If you are going to play, Dreher said it’s advisable to disinfect your clubs and any equipment before and after you play. And when you arrive at the course, if there’s a valet waiting to take your clubs to the staging area, you may want to wave him off and take your clubs yourself. “You want to do as much as you can to keep that 6 feet of distance between people, so reducing your risks,” Dreher said. “If you’re in a group, that means keeping that distance, covering any coughs, walking the course instead of using carts that may be touched multiple times throughout a week, avoiding locker rooms or dining areas, maybe leave the flag or pin in.” So, it’s not advisable to give your buddy’s new driver a try.
Can you imagine saying things like 'waving away the valet' and 'not trying your buddy's new driver'? Given there's no update on the website, we might wonder how things will go. How will we prepare for distancing on the golf course?Our retail spaces have new designs on the floors - with lots of markers to guide distanced foot traffic. Wouldn't that be hysterical on golf courses? Great orange circles all over would make a wonderful aerial art piece.
With the delusional and illusional in mind, I used a Georgia O'Keefe filter - her beautiful wiggly brush strokes - to create the psychedelic sense of the current social scene. This is the massive Magnolia tree at the old experimental station on Niagara Street, St. Catharines.
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